Every year, more than 1.5 million wildebeest, zebras and gazelles migrate between the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania and the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya and back. In early 2010, plans were announced to construct a commercial road across the Serengeti National Park, bisecting this migration route. In addition to the direct impact of the road and traffic on migratory wildlife, a road would also increase access to a previously remote area, making it highly susceptible to human activities that are difficult to regulate. This region of the Serengeti is also home to endangered species targeted by poachers, and increased public access would make protection of these imperilled species even more challenging.
The Serengeti–Mara ecosystem is home to one of the last great mammal migrations on earth.
The migration is essential to ecosystem health of the Serengeti.
The direct and indirect effects of a commercial road would irreversibly damage the Serengeti.
Increased public access will increase poaching in the Serengeti.
Damage to the Serengeti would be impossible to mitigate or offset.
The Serengeti–Mara ecosystem is one of the most productive ecosystems on earth and remains relatively intact. Constructing a highway across the Serengeti would result in a significant crash in the migrating populations of large wildlife due to illegal hunting, increased mortality due to wildlife vehicle collisions and barrier effects. Wildlife crossing structures are unlikely to be feasible or effective because of the large number of migrating animals and the chaotic nature of the migration. Whether the road is paved or unpaved is irrelevant – it will have a profound and far‐reaching effect on this fragile and irreplaceable globally significant resource.
Expected Effects of a Road Across the Serengeti
Handbook of Road Ecology ; 455-464
2015-04-01
10 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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